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This is the Second part , I know part all you hve all been
waiting on. Please if you have just skipped to this
section, go back to the personal section and read it. There
is much to be gained by the personal section and conveying
to your interviewer who you are and how you tick from day
to day. Also, the answers I am giving here are off the cuff
and are not intended to be the definitive answer to these
questions. There are many aspects to these questions that
just cannot be answered here and honestly, you will not
have time to explain any of these questions fully in the
interview process. It is up to you to make sure your
interviewer understands that you understand the question
and have given enough information that they know you
understand the concept.
A Bitmap index.
Use the explain plan set statement_id = 'tst1' into plan_table for
a SQL statement
18. How would you go about increasing the buffer cache hit
ratio?
You get this error when you get a snapshot too old within
rollback. It can usually be solved by increasing the undo
retention or increasing the size of rollbacks. You should
also look at the logic involved in the application getting
the error message.
21. How would you determine the time zone under which a
database was operating?
WRAP
PMON
34. Give two methods you could use to determine what DDL
changes have been made.
41. What view would you use to look at the size of a data
file?
DBA_DATA_FILES
DBA_FREE_SPACE
SHOW ERRORS
These two Oracle utilities are used for loading data into
the database. The difference is that the import utility
relies on the data being produced by another Oracle utility
EXPORT while the SQL*Loader utility allows data to be
loaded that has been produced by other utilities from
different data sources just so long as it conforms to ASCII
formatted or delimited files.
55) What errors did you hit during your most recent
database recovery, and how did you solve them ?
56) What are third-party tools have you used in your DBA
career, and what would you recommend ?
Technical - UNIX
ls -ltra
df -lk
Use :%s/<old>/<new>/g